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...mere threat of legislation can create a chill. Law professor Robert O'Neil, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, calls this "regulation by raised eyebrow. If it goes too far, it gets out of hand. Then the government is at risk of acting beyond its constitutional powers." And that chill can have effects far beyond what the FCC is empowered to do directly. Says Shield creator Shawn Ryan: "There will be things that we will never see, that are victims of this mind-set. Nobody is really brave enough to take away the shows...
...Game.” Two exceptionally common words which take on an exceptionally distinctive meaning when paired together. Their mere utterance unearths treasured images from the memory of any real Harvard student—like that time you blacked out at 1:30 p.m. on top of a couch that was on top of a U-Haul, for example. Or, that time you rushed the field after the Crimson won and pretended to urinate on the Yale insignia. Or that time you rushed the field after the Crimson won and actually did urinate on the Yale insignia. And, of course...
...greenlighted shows like Desperate Housewives and Lost and earlier helped develop The Sopranos for HBO, to head up a new media division in L.A. and spearhead the company's venture into Tinseltown. Next month the Silicon Valley--based Yahoo! will open its media headquarters in Santa Monica, a mere limo commute from Hollywood's major studios...
...enjoyed. His challenge will be to integrate Sony's electronics and entertainment businesses, which depend on content creation and distribution, into the single value chain that has been Idei's vision for Sony. If Stringer fails, Japan's business community might experience a relief that is deeper-seated than mere schadenfreude. His success might aggravate the self-uncertainty that is endemic in Japan today...
...only problem: Chen Yi-hsiung is dead. Police say he drowned off the southern city of Tainan 10 days after the March 19 shooting, a death now considered a suicide. It's a case with huge import: hours after the attempted assassination, President Chen won re-election by a mere 0.2% margin, a vote that prompted large demonstrations in Taipei...